The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.

In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.

There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.

I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

There are no working hours for leaders.

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.

Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.